When you hear the term “mental illness”, what’s the first image that pops into your mind? For nearly half the participants in a 2017 study, this prompt conjured up negative impressions of...
Growing up, Abigail Lee struggled with revealing her true self to her family members. “The expectation I had as a youth was that each time I showed my negative emotions and feelings, I would...
Reading the news on how Kanye West was acting bizarrely and making references to the faith during a presidential campaign rally made me reflect on my own mental health journey and how people around...
During her late 20s, Charmaine Wee started seeing visions and hearing voices that seemed different from her usual spiritual experiences. As she struggled to identify which of these were from God, the...
I don’t know about you, but whenever I have a social thing coming up in the week or two ahead, it weighs on me. And it doesn’t even have to be a big thing! Just attending a conference or...
I remember the first time I knew deep in my gut that I had depression. I was like any 20-year-old – my days consisted of going for classes in university, serving in church, trying new recipes and...
I found out about you because someone forwarded to me the news about your “unnatural death”. The time the police were called was listed as 6.50am on Monday, June 8. I wondered about that. I...
When I was very young, my parents parted ways. Though my mum remarried, I still never got to experience what growing up in a stable family is like. Essentially, I’ve never had parental figures...
On February 3, I returned to Singapore from Shanghai and served my 14-day leave of absence (LOA) without any symptoms. But on February 21, I developed a fever that broke only on March 11. Yes, I...